When you hear Soon-Shiong elucidate his vision of the future of healthcare and the development of new therapeutics, the holistic approach he intends to take with his company NantWorks and other scientific disciplines-like particle science- become clear. As he sees it, the interactions occurring inside the human body are not disimilar to those being studied at the Large Hadron Collider on the border of France and Switzerland, where physicists slam subatomic particles into each at nearly the speed of light in an attempt to discover the Higgs boson – the elusive,
subatomic particle theorized to give mass to matter.